Martin> However, this is really hard to do correctly - if it were Martin> simple, it would have been done long ago.
I don't believe difficulty is the only (or primary) barrier. I think *someone* would have tackled it since Greg Stein did back in 1.4(?) or his free-threading changes would have been incorporated into the core had they yielded speedups on multiprocessors and not hurt performance on uniprocessors. Skip _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com